Europe
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Grid Telecom and Dawiyat Integrated will collaborate to build a new high-capacity system that will connect Greece with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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In an interview with Capacity at the Digital with Purpose event in Cascais, Portugal Rafael González, CMO at MedUX outlines the integral nature of its 2024 benchmark report on 5G performance across 10 European capitals to both operators and regulators.
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Aire Networks has chosen Nokia mobile core solutions to modernise the operator’s network in Spain.
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IQM Quantum Computers has opened its first quantum data centre in Munich, Germany.
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Peter Zanatta, managing director at Attanz assesses Norway’s importance as a growing data market
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Norway-based Telenor is establishing a new cybersecurity company focused on the Nordic region.
Forthcoming events
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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has taken a 3.2% stake in BT Group, worth around £400 million.
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Veon plans to increase its investment to Ukraine’s digital infrastructure to US$1 billion from 2023-2027.
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KKR has secured EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of Telecom Italia’s (TIM) fixed-line network worth around US$24 billion.
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Orange has completed the merger between Orange Romania SA (ORA) and Orange Romania Communications (OROC) by integrating OROC into ORA.
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The story of how a tragedy in an ammunition storage depot indirectly led to the creation of a sustainable, naturally cooled data centre in a completely different city 60 years later.
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Pan-European carrier RETN has made three significant enhancements to its network infrastructure in Poland, which it hopes will improve internet connectivity across Central and Eastern Europe.
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GlobalNet has confirmed another expansion into Central Europe with the launch of a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Warsaw.
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Grid Telecom and Quadrivium are teaming up to create a new cable landing station (CLS) in Chania, on the northern coast of Crete.
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Samsung and O2 Telefónica have launched their first virtualised RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN commercial site in Germany.
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For the next Data Centre of the Month, Capacity looks at Datacenter Mutualisé Lorrain (DCML), a shared data centre built for a hospital, a university, and a regional government – and a successful example of ‘micro-colocation’.
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Nokia and Vodafone have successfully completed an end-to end Open RAN trial on Vodafone Italy’s live 5G standalone (SA) network.
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Future investments into Ukrainian telecoms infrastructure are expected to be both “heavy” and “indispensable” for the country, given the essential nature of Kyivstar’s services, a spokesperson for the company told Capacity.